Kit for assembling for example a piece of furniture a partition or toys from panels and strips

Claim 1

A kit for assembling a piece of furniture, a partition, a store rack, toys and the like, comprising plural panels having opposite side faces and edge portions, a pair of opposed slots in said opposite side faces adjacent and parallel to at least two of said opposite edge Portions of each panel, and plural connecting strips each forming a complement with the pair of opposed slots adjacent the edge portions of at least a pair of said panels disposed normal to each other, said connecting strips being substantially coextensive with the cooperating edge portions and being rectangular in cross-section and having main flanges and side flanges connected normal to said main flanges, said main flanges together with said side flanges form at least two mutually connected rectangular cross-section tube portions connected normal to each other in each rectangular connecting strip, said side flanges having a cross-sectional length that does not exceed half the length of said main flanges, each rectangular tube portion having one side which is for the greater part open, the open side and main flange forming the long sides of each rectangular tube portion, the open sides of connected tube portions disposed normal to each other, the open side of each tube portion being the same length as the main flange of the rectangular tube portion and being partially closed by a pair of relatively short hook flanges facing each other and connected to the side flanges at right angles and rendering each tube portion substantially C-shaped in cross-section and of the same depth, an edge portion of a different one of said plural panels adapted to be engaged in each C-shaped cross-section tube portion, said pair of slots adjacent the panel edge portion adapted to be engaged by said pair of hook flanges and having a depth of substantially the length of said relatively short hook flanges, and one of said rectangular cross-section tube portions having one long side thereof located in the median plane of the main flange of the other of said rectangular cross-section tube portion, whereby the edge portion of each of said plural panels is adapted for engagement by any C-shaped cross-section tube portion of any of said plural connecting strips and the edges of said panels overlie and support each other relieving said connecting strips of stresses.